Title: Agent-centered morality: an Aristotelian alternative to Kantian internalismAuthor: Harris, George WPublished: University of California Press, 1999Subjects: PhilosophyPublisher's Description: What kinds of persons do we aspire to be, and how do our aspirations fit with our ideas of rationality? In Agent-Centered Morality , George Harris argues that most of us aspire to a certain sort of integrity: We wish to be respectful of and sympathetic to others, and to be loving parents, friends, a . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Just doctoring: medical ethics in the liberal stateAuthor: Brennan, Troyen APublished: University of California Press, 1991Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | MedicinePublisher's Description: Just Doctoring draws the doctor-patient relationship out of the consulting room and into the middle of the legal and political arenas where it more and more frequently appears. Traditionally, medical ethics has focused on the isolated relationship of physician to patient in a setting that has left t . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Public health law and ethics: a readerAuthor: Gostin, Larry O. (Larry Ogalthorpe)Published: University of California Press, 2002Subjects: Law | Medicine | Health CarePublisher's Description: This incisive selection of government reports, scholarly articles, and court cases is designed to illuminate the ethical, legal, and political issues in the theory and practice of public health. A companion to the internationally acclaimed Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint, this collection e . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Democracy and moral developmentAuthor: Norton, David LPublished: University of California Press, 1990Subjects: Philosophy | Political Theory | EthicsPublisher's Description: At a time when politics and virtue seem less compatible than oil and water, Democracy and Moral Development shows how to bring the two together. Philosopher David Norton applies classical concepts of virtue to the premises of modern democracy. The centerpiece of the book is a model of organizational . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: The worth of a childAuthor: Murray, Thomas H 1946-Published: University of California Press, 1996Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Medicine | Social Problems | Public PolicyPublisher's Description: Thomas Murray's graceful and humane book illuminates one of the most morally complex areas of everyday life: the relationship between parents and children. What do children mean to their parents, and how far do parental obligations go? What, from the beginning of life to its end, is the worth of a c . . . [more]Similar Items

Title: Modernity and the hegemony of visionAuthor: Levin, David Michael 1939-Published: University of California Press, 1993Subjects: Philosophy | Literature | EthicsPublisher's Description: This collection of original essays by preeminent interpreters of continental philosophy explores the question of whether Western thought and culture have been dominated by a vision-centered paradigm of knowledge, ethics, and power. It focuses on the character of vision in modern philosophy and on ar . . . [more]Similar Items